Paul Williams (Boxer)
Paul Williams ( born July 27, 1981 in Aiken, South Carolina, United States) is an American professional boxer.
Career
The tall southpaw Williams had just 20 amateur fights and was established in 2000 under the name of The Punisher fight at the age of 19 years professional. It was built relatively slowly.
Williams qualified in 2006 with wins over the undefeated Argentine Walter Matthysse and former WBA light welterweight champion Sharmba Mitchell for a title fight. On 14 July 2007, he met the Mexican WBO titlist Antonio Margarito and beat him over twelve rounds on points. He already lost the title but in his first title defense on February 9, 2008, the Puerto Rican Carlos Quintana on points, his first defeat in 34 professional fights until then. In four months later held direct rematch Williams succeeded revenge by defeating Quintana by technical knockout in the first round and thus regained the WBO welterweight title.
In November 2008 he resigned his title to boxing now be in the light middleweight. His first fight in this weight class, he played 29 November 2008 against Verno Phillips. Williams won this fight by termination after the eighth round. His next fight, he denied in April 2009 against Ronald Wright, whom he defeated convincingly on points.
According to the clear points victory against Ronald " Winky" Wright, he ran against a native of Argentina light middleweight boxer Sergio Martinez on December 5, 2009. The fight took place in the middleweight limit. Both boxers achieved in the first round rainfall. After 12 rounds Williams was declared the winner on points disputed. On 8 May 2010, he boxed against Puerto Rican Kermit Cintron. After 4 rounds balanced Williams stumbled so badly that he threw Cintron out of the ring. Could the fight due to injuries not continue, so that the point maps were evaluated and Williams was declared the winner.
On November 20, 2010, he stepped up to take the long-awaited rematch against Sergio Gabriel Martinez. The fight took place again at middleweight. Martinez had become surprisingly Kelly Pavlik defeated and was now champion of the World Boxing Council. After a spectacular first round Williams went after one minute in the second round by a left hook from Martinez difficult KO In the ensuing battle, he kicked the Cuban Erislandy Lara in a WBC eliminator. Lara met Williams in this fight several times hard with the left hand. Williams won the fight but after a highly controversial judges' decision.
Motorcycle accident
On May 27, 2012 Paul Williams had an accident in Atlanta with his motorcycle and was hospitalized with serious injuries in the hospital. He is currently paralyzed from the waist down.